lente

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lente (uncountable)

1. An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.

From Dutch lente.

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lente (plural lentes)

1. spring, the season between winter and summer

From Middle Dutch lentin, lenten, from Old Dutch lentin, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: len‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛntə
• Homophone: Lenthe

lente f (plural lentes, diminutive lentetje n)

1. spring: the season between winter and summer

   Synonym: voorjaar

2. (literary) year of age

   Synonym: jaar

   eenentwintig lentes ― twenty-one years old

• lenteavond
• lentedag
• lentefeest
• lenteklokje
• lentemaand

• Afrikaans: lente
• → Papiamentu: lènte, lente

• (seasons) seizoen, jaargetijde; lente/voorjaar, zomer, herfst/najaar, winter ^{(Category: nl:Seasons)}

• leent, netel, telen

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃t/

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *lenditem, from Latin lēns, lendem.

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (zoology) nit

• pou m

Inflected forms.

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

• “lente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lentes)

1. lens

• lentes

From lenta (“slow”) +‎ -e (adverbial suffix).

lente

1. slowly

   Synonym: quik

lente

1. lens

lente

1. slow

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: lèn‧te

Inflected form of lento.

lente f pl

1. feminine plural of lento

First attested 17th century. Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lenti)

1. lens

• lente a contatto
• lente d'ingrandimento

• lenticchia

From lentus (“slow”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.teː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪eː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.te/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪e]

lentē (comparative lentius, superlative lentissimē)

1. slowly

   Synonym: tardē

   Marcus ambulat lente ad arborem.

   Marcus walks slowly to the tree.

• lentēscō
• lentitūdō
• lentulus
• lentus
• festīnā lentē

• “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

lente f (5th declension)

1. riband
2. band
3. fillet
4. ribbon
5. sweatband
6. tape

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntə/

lente f pl

1. glasses, lenses

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

• lenet

lente

1. simple past of lene

Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: len‧te

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (optics) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
2. (anatomy) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)

   Synonym: cristalino

3. lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
4. (figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
5. (geology) a fossil or deposit between two strata
6. Clipping of lente de conta(c)to.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lente.

• lente de conta(c)to

• lentilha, lentícula

lente m or f by sense (plural lentes)

1. teacher, professor

   Synonyms: professor, docente

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate with English lens.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlente/ [ˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: len‧te

lente m or f (plural lentes)

1. lens
2. (chiefly in the plural, Latin America) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass

   Synonyms: (Latin America) anteojos, (Spain, Colombia, Dominican Republic) lentillas, (Cuba, Puerto Rico) espejuelos

Lente can be either masculine or feminine in its singular form, but is always masculine when used in the plural to refer to eyeglasses.

• lente de contacto

• lenteja
• lentejuela
• liendre

• “lente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish lente.

• Hyphenation: len‧te
• IPA^(key): /ˈlente/, [ˈlen.te]

lente

1. lens
2. magnifying glass
3. flashlight

   Synonym: plaslayt